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Timoni Grone is a web designer in San Francisco. This is her blog.

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March 1st, 2010
Still from The Secret of Kells, 2010. This movie looks amazing.

Still from The Secret of Kells, 2010.

This movie looks amazing.

animation book decoration typography
February 26th, 2010
smiley-face stems from kaostemproduction)

smiley-face stems from kaostemproduction)

February 24th, 2010
Photos: Lyric Opera’s “The Damnation of Faust” - chicagotribune.com

Photos: Lyric Opera’s “The Damnation of Faust” - chicagotribune.com

My beef with the discourse of “diversity” in a nutshell: it screams “give us more women” and whispers “give us more women like us”. We want more women to be early stage startup employees working for equity and battling code until 2 AM in the morning. We want more women making products to pump VC cash into so that they can be flipped to Google in two years despite having less paying customers than your local Girl Scout troop’s worst cookie salesman. We want more women mentors and women VCs and women industry group organizers so that we can pat ourselves on the back for embracing change while making sure that the Valley stays the way it is.

…I can rattle off all the hypotheses for you: there’s a biological basis, no it’s a cultural issue, no it’s a pipeline issue, no it’s a lack of role models, no it’s a … and it is probably a witches brew of all of the above and more. But my gut instinct has always been that people avoid joining startups because joining startups sucks. The question isn’t what are we doing that’s keeping ladies out of the Valley, gentlemen. The question should be why in God’s name are we still here.

Women, Men, And Other Things Done Wrong By Silicon Valley: MicroISV on a Shoestring

Ironic Sans: They Don't Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To

Hilarious excerpts from an old-school Acer computer manual.
February 23rd, 2010
////////, by bats…. (Picture from San Francisco’s Carnival 2009.)

////////, by bats…. (Picture from San Francisco’s Carnival 2009.)

Why is art more simple than a tv? Both are completely useless things you passively consume.

Pavel’s comment on Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping! [dive into mark]

Huh! This is interesting. My immediate gut response was that art inspires, especially brilliant art, or art that particularly speaks to you. But of course a television can inspire, too, and you can easily show works of art on it besides.

February 22nd, 2010
Here’s the specs: Frame / Size / Year: Livery Design Gruppe Black Sparkle Track / 53cm / 2010 Handlebars / Stem: Nitto Classic 42cm 25.4mm Silver Road Bars / Nitto Lugged Threadless Stem Fork / Headset: Livery Design Gruppe Track Stem / Chris King Threadless Headset Front Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire: Origin8 Pro-Pulsion Track Hub / Velocity Deep V Rim / Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Tire Rear Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire: Origin8 Pro-Pulsion Track Hub / Velocity Deep V Rim / Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Tire Crankset / Bottom Bracket: Sugino RD2 Messenger Crankset Pearl White / Sugino Bottom Bracket Saddle / Seat Post: Brooks White Team Pro CMWC Tokyo / Nitto S-84 Lugged Seatpost Pedals / Chain: Origin8 Pro Track Light Pedal & Soma Fab Toe Cages Brakes / Brake Levers: Shimano Tiagra Brakes / Soma Fabrications Urban Cross Levers Gearing / Chainring / Misc.: Euro-Asia Deluxe Track Cog Yeah, yeah, my seat angle is weird. I like it.

Here’s the specs:

Frame / Size / Year:
Livery Design Gruppe Black Sparkle Track / 53cm / 2010

Handlebars / Stem:
Nitto Classic 42cm 25.4mm Silver Road Bars / Nitto Lugged Threadless Stem

Fork / Headset:
Livery Design Gruppe Track Stem / Chris King Threadless Headset

Front Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
Origin8 Pro-Pulsion Track Hub / Velocity Deep V Rim / Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Tire

Rear Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
Origin8 Pro-Pulsion Track Hub / Velocity Deep V Rim / Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Tire

Crankset / Bottom Bracket:
Sugino RD2 Messenger Crankset Pearl White / Sugino Bottom Bracket

Saddle / Seat Post:
Brooks White Team Pro CMWC Tokyo / Nitto S-84 Lugged Seatpost

Pedals / Chain:
Origin8 Pro Track Light Pedal & Soma Fab Toe Cages

Brakes / Brake Levers:
Shimano Tiagra Brakes / Soma Fabrications Urban Cross Levers

Gearing / Chainring / Misc.:
Euro-Asia Deluxe Track Cog

Yeah, yeah, my seat angle is weird. I like it.

livery design gruppe, livery design ldp track frames fixie fixy san francisco bikes cycling frames track frames
…Designers who win awards for edgy design they did for a friend’s business— with a print run of one hundred or something like that? They’ve got no art director, no creative director, no client’s representative, no agency person. Where’s the obstacle to good design there? But take something like a cheese. When I see a really good package for a cheese— I know what that designer went through to get there. It makes me want to fall on my knees and kiss that designer’s feet, that cheese.

Ernesto Aparicio, via blog - natalia ilyin

The “bad” work I was referring to is process work that the public never sees. To make change, I try things that are just horrific. Sometimes I feel like I don’t know how to design anymore. I put together techniques and genres that don’t really work. I lose my sense of scale or color, I try things that are awful by any standard. If I’m working on a project with a deadline, I’ll finally abandon the failed experiments and fall back on something I already know how to do (solemn work). You can coast through a career like that, but you won’t grow.

Sometimes amidst the bad stuff I see something in a new way. That’s what I’m looking for.

Paula Scher, interview with Pr*tty Sh*tty

February 19th, 2010
davidkaneda: Webdesigner Depot has created a fun walk down memory lane with 20 Years of Adobe Photoshop. Pictured above is where I started, Photoshop 4 (LE to be exact). This is where I started, too. Wow, the tools I use most really haven’t changed much.

davidkaneda:

Webdesigner Depot has created a fun walk down memory lane with 20 Years of Adobe Photoshop. Pictured above is where I started, Photoshop 4 (LE to be exact).

This is where I started, too. Wow, the tools I use most really haven’t changed much.

Oh So Beautiful Paper: Kate + Nick’s Typography Save the Dates

Oh So Beautiful Paper: Kate + Nick’s Typography Save the Dates

A detail from Wallace Sterling’s 1960s Grande Baroque Flatware Set. Will run you a few grand on Ebay.

A detail from Wallace Sterling’s 1960s Grande Baroque Flatware Set. Will run you a few grand on Ebay.

shipwreckd: mike giant: the modern san franciscan This is really creepy. Really, really creepy. Like those “perfect girlfriend” dolls from Urban Outfitters creepy. Like “objectify much, marina boy?” creepy.

shipwreckd:

mike giant: the modern san franciscan

This is really creepy. Really, really creepy. Like those “perfect girlfriend” dolls from Urban Outfitters creepy. Like “objectify much, marina boy?” creepy.

February 18th, 2010
Dinner party usepaths

bobulate:

What if we studied dinner party usepaths — “ways of doing things which are typical and which tend to work according to the people who most commonly perform the activity in question,” in Tim Boucher’s helpful definition — and redesigned our dining rooms, table cloths, and place settings accordingly?

Subtle tweaks could encourage cross-table conversation, or make it hard for the guest who always drinks too much to get hold of their wine glass. Playful hosts could insert thought-provoking obstacles into the decor, guaranteed to interrupt force of habit and prompt discussion. And teaching kids table manners might no longer be such a struggle, since the dining environment itself would reinforce them.

I think Emily Post and Miss Manners would be very surprised to see this touted as a new concept.

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